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Expression of interleukin-8 in primary and metastatic malignant melanoma of the skin.
Melanoma research - 1 Aug 1999
Singh R K, Varney M L, Bucana C D, Johansson S L
Abstract excerpt
It was recently demonstrated that interleukin-8 (IL-8) is produced by cultured melanoma cells and acts as an essential autocrine growth factor. Earlier studies from our laboratory demonstrated a direct correlation between IL-8 expression in human variant cell lines and their metastatic potential in nude mice. In the present study we examined the expression of IL-8 in human malignant melanomas using...
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